YANG FUDONGFifth Night

Fifth Night is a recent multi-channel video installation by Chinese artist Yang Fudong. One of the most important and
influential artists to emerge in China since the late 1990s, Yang Fudong produces sophisticated film and video installations
that engage the cinematic traditions of both Hollywood and experimental film while referencing the changing cultural
conditions of contemporary China.

In Fifth Night, the artist captured a single scene from seven different vantage points; he then pieced this footage together to
compose a fractured whole that plays out across seven screens. The result is a poetic, layered and disjunctive narrative that
poses a sense of dislocation that is reflective of the new China, a position that hovers between traditional ideologies/values,
and recent modernization. This will be the first presentation of this critically-acclaimed work in Canada.

Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and
curated by Daina Augaitis, chief curator/
associate director. In conjunction with
Yellow Signal Vancouver, a metro Vancouverwide
presentation of new media works by
contemporary Chinese artists, initiated by
Centre A.

Yang Fudong: Fifth Night is the thirteenth installment in NEXT: A Series of Artist Projects from the Pacific Rim, presented by TD Bank Group.